The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-31


Jarring or knocking of blackberries
and raspberries is now advocated as a
cheap and easy way of gathering these
fruits when they are to be used for dry
ing or evaporating.
Experiments in England suggest the
possibility of Alternating the virus of
swine fever by mixing it with certain
chemical materials for inoculative pur-
poses. 1t is said NJ Pasteur's method of
protective inoculation for hydrophobia
has not proved successful rs a preventive
of swine fever.
The oat is a splendid food for young
animals, because, compared with corn,
straw, ETC., it is rich in muscle and bone
forming elements; and this also makes it
a splendid food for work animals Corn
should be fed sparingly to work animals.
during the summer especially, as it is a
heating food. 1t will pay to make the
grain ration of oats in the morning and at
noon.
A correspondent gives his way of keep
ing the curculio off the plum and cherry
trees. Take refuse wool and tic it around
the trunk of the tree so as to let it hang
down, and then every morning turn up
the wool and catch them. Another way
recommended is to wind the body with
a strip of paper six inches wide, and
keep this paper well coated with printers
ink or similar substance.
Watermelons, says the Agriculturist, in
their carly stage are beset by numerous
pests, and later by two-legged vermin.
If, by inustrious use of various poisons a
good stand of plants is secured. we
usually get a good crop. We one season
caused people to respect our watermelons
by posting a notice advising that, in
selecting melons, they should be careful
to avoid those which had been poisoned.
Mr.. Burnett tells in the Ne7o England
Farmer that it is quite as important that
skinned milk be warmed for young pigs
as for calves. Thousands of pigs are
annually made sick, given the scours,
&C., by being fed all the cold milk they
will eat after a long interval of fasting
Pigs should be fed little and often when
they are taken from the sow. Blood
heat should be the rule for milk for
young pigs.
In heeping horse fat, there is as much
in the driver as in the feed. A horse
well curried, and rubbed with a wooden
rag afterward, is sure to make a sleek
coated horse, and when we'll groomed is,
we may say. half-fed A cross and ner-
vous driver will fill the horse with fear
and dread, and will rapidly run his horse
down. Use any animal kindly. Always
be firm and make the horse mind, but
never get excited. A cool headed driver
makes a long headed horse.
Dairying will pay in the long run, if
it is intelligently managed. There is no
business that promises better, for there
is none for whose products there is a
more universal demand; and the more of
good butter the better it will pay. 1t is
not because the market is overstocked
with good butter that prices are low, but
low prices come from the tons of poor
butter that are thrown upon the market.
This poor butter is sold to the country
dealer at about the price of grease, but
little more.
In young orchard such crops may be
grown as require manuring and hoeing.
Potatoes, squashes, cucumbers for
pickles, sweet corn and root crops
generally, if not allowed to encroach up
on the trees, may be so managed that the
fertility of the soil will be increased.
When the orchard comes into bearing,
seed it and convert it into pig pasture.
The benefit will be reciprocal. The pigs
will thrive finely, requiring but little
other food, while the droppings of the
pigs and their gathering of fallen fruit
will be of great benefit to the trees.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph has been trying sulphur for
scab in potatoes. After covering the po.
tatoes lightly, he sprinkled good hand
full of mixture of ashes and plaster
with sulphur added at the rate of ten
pounds to the hundred-around each
hill. Among those so treated there were
no scabs or wire-worms. Other portions
of the land were badly infested. In his
culture he plants three or four inches
deep, hoes twice, and plows four times,
never letting weeds grow, and makes
fat broad hill two or three inches high.